> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 15:30, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > IIRC the spec is not _really_ broken - it still allows the correct
> > > behaviour :)
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > The fact the ISO spec is broken usually means that at least one of the
> > > big vendors involved in ISO spec creation must have had a broken
> > > implementation at that time.
> >
> > Right. IBM.
> >
> > > Most likely they have fixed it by now ...
> >
> > Nope, though I don't know for sure. Anyone here have a recent AIX
> > machine to test?
> >
> > > Does anyone know _any_ other libc that has this behaviour ?
> >
> > AIX and (I think) Irix.
>
> How do we currently support AIX/Irix ?
Why should we rely on broken glibc and the standard? Why don't we make
our own mktime() and use it on all platforms.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
